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701) Festivals of freedom: memory and meaning in African American emancipation celebrations, 1808-1915
Author
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
xi, 339 pages ; cm.
Language
English
703) The Giver quartet
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
772 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Collects the four giver novels about life in a futuristic society.
Series
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xii, 338 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In recent years, Civil War veterans have emerged from historical obscurity. Inspired by memory studies and energized by the ongoing neo-revisionist turn, a vibrant new literature has given the lie to the once obligatory lament that the postbellum lives of Civil War soldiers were irretrievable. Despite this flood of historical scholarship, fundamental questions about the essential character of Civil War veteranhood remain unanswered. Moreover, because...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press, An Imprint of Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
156 pages : illustrated, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At age thirty, Kyle Boelte finds himself living in San Francisco, where the summer fog blows inland off the ocean and the landscape changes moment to moment. Amidst this ever-changing sea of fog, Boelte struggles to remember his brother Kris, who committed suicide in the family's Denver home when Boelte was just thirteen. In this impressive debut, Boelte sets up a dual narrative: one investigates San Francisco's climate to explain the science behind...
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed to the Book trade worldwide by Springer
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
The emergence of the cloud and modern, fast corporate networks demands that you perform judicious balancing of computational loads. Practical Load Balancing presents an entire analytical framework to increase performance not just of¡one machine, but of your entire infrastructure. Practical Load Balancing starts by introducing¡key concepts and the tools you'll need to tackle your load-balancing issues. You'll travel through the IP layers and learn¡how...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 197 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale. Immersing herself in the personal papers of the Butlers, accounts from journalists that witnessed the auction, genealogical records, and oral histories, Anne C. Bailey...
712) Look again: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Street Noise Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Trauma can make truth hard to find. Have you ever experienced a terror, grief, or confusion so great that when you try to share it you can only find shattered images floating in darkness? You try over and over, but can't tell the story, to yourself or to anyone else. Look Again presents us with six variations of the same event, seen through the different lenses caused by other life revelations. It explores the fragmenting nature of trauma by tracing...
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Launchpad tablet : digital, sound, color ; 20 x 13 cm + 1 USB cable and 1 AC power adapter (in case 22 x 24 cm).
Language
English
Description
"Kids will develop their problem-solving skills while exploring the world through stories, language, relationships, and culture. Learn American Sign Language and Spanish; Discover the importance of customer service; Sharpen memory and listening skills; Practice U.S. geography."--
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 472 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The family story behind Abraham Zapruder's film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact, told by Zapruder's granddaughter, draws on personal records and previously sealed archive sources to trace the film's role in the media, courts, government, and arts community.--
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
xvi, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Charts the development of the public memory and historical understanding of the wars of the colonial and early national periods through the practice of battlefield tourism in the early American republic"--Publisher's Web site.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"On November 9, 1989, Bernd Zeiger, a Stasi officer in the twilight of his career, is deteriorating from a mysterious illness. Alarmed by the disappearance of Lara, a young waitress at his regular café with whom he is obsessed, he chases a series of clues throughout Berlin. The details of Lara's vanishing trigger flashbacks to his entanglement with Johannes Held, a physicist who, twenty-five years earlier, infiltrated an American research institute...
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